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macOS 13.3 RC - Bug fixes, Changes, and more
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If anyone reading this from the UK, need some help isolating an issue I am having issues since updating to the RC, with video streaming on BBC player.
When commencing play on catch up tv, it will just stay at the play window, and then a few minutes later, the fan's whirr up, and go to max, and no video plays. When watching live, if you pause, or jump forwards/backwards, it will freeze and again the fans will go to max.
I've rest pram and Nvram, for what it's worth, restarted, cleared the cache through develop. I have also confirmed, that no issue using chrome on the MacBook Pro (intel 2020) nor any issue on iPad Pro or iPhone 13 Pro.
When commencing play on catch up tv, it will just stay at the play window, and then a few minutes later, the fan's whirr up, and go to max, and no video plays. When watching live, if you pause, or jump forwards/backwards, it will freeze and again the fans will go to max.
I've rest pram and Nvram, for what it's worth, restarted, cleared the cache through develop. I have also confirmed, that no issue using chrome on the MacBook Pro (intel 2020) nor any issue on iPad Pro or iPhone 13 Pro.
Please tell me the Messages bug where it displays a phone number instead of the name from your contacts is now fixed. This has been ongoing since macOS 12.
on my mac, the name & picture always shows in messages. perhaps something needs to be reset?
i'd suggest starting a thread, and see what ppl suggest. it'a not a bug, just an issue you're having, and perhaps others have it too & have found a fix.
I've turned off Cloud Sync and re-enabled it with no luck. Logged out of iCloud on all devices without helping (thinking it was a Contacts issue). I have ADP on, but it was occurring before then.
I've had a similar problem with Safari for several months (also 2020 Intel MBPro), specifically with BBC player streaming, on both Safari and Safari Technology Preview - tried the same things that you changed, to no avail and ended up switching to Brave where I have experienced no such issues.
However, the latest Safari Technology Preview download earlier this week does seem to have resolved the blank / freezing video issue for me; but I am staying with Brave now I have got used to it!
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This argument shows a serious and fatal misconception about the nature of bugs many people around here seem to be having quite often:
When a feature/function doesn't work properly on some Macs and works flawlessly on others, the feature working flawlessly in some settings ist NOT an indication for the absence of an operating system bug.
Not.
At.
All.
The opposite holds true - most of the bugs which are present nowadays in Apples OS do not occur in the same manner on different systems, but only under specific circumstances which are not so easy to identify. This makes them more difficult to detect and reproduce - and that's the reason we have such a plethora of them, because they pass QA far more easily than those "common" bugs which are comparably easy to find.
But of course, the vast majority of those problems are bugs caused by the operating system. Many people not experiencing them on their Macs does not change anything about that fact.
if you say so. i'd be more concerned with resolving the issue (or 'bug') than explaining my theory about what a 'bug' is...
I hear you.
Nevertheless, I guess it's quite important to differentiate here, because in many cases bugs caused by the OS means that there are no real chances to either resolve an issue for a significant amount of time or at least to find a practical workaround...there is a lot of energy you can spend in such cases, but it's mostly wasted.
Many features in macOS or the other Apple OSses are just completely...sorry, f-ed up.
Just take Screen Time with device synchronisation and family sharing as an example - never ever worked properly since it was originally introduced, no matter which effort of resetting everything etc. goes into it, and never will, unless its severe design misconceptions will be addressed.
Or HomeKit...well, here is hope at least, although the relaunch happened to be a disaster first, but only if Apple really takes care of the problems (as they at least intend to do in the case of HomeKit), we will see enduring stabilization...
bugs are generally 'universal', or, at least, many people have a particular issue. and either way, we're good (as a community) at finding fixes, alternatives, and, when nothing else: workarounds... at least until (& if) apple sort things out.
there are always bugs; it's the nature of software. there's not finite point where everything 'just works' 🤣
but here, barring some random issues, i am working, and functioning, beautifully on ventura. and that, for me, is what matters most.
Sorry to disagree so sharply here, but:
No, absolutely not.
That's my main point - from my experience as a programmer and as a user, universality is in no way a relevant criterion for the absence or presence of bugs. In many cases, the circumstances for reproduction are just too weird to be made transparent with reasonable effort. This effect increases exponentially with the complexity of software - and the operating systems of our days are already complexity monsters.
Telling from my experience, bugs being in some way 'universal' is a quite common misconception which just leads to a lot of wrong assessments - especially thinking some misbehaviour isn't caused by a bug, while in reality it just is.
Yes, 100% right IMHO.
This means, the quality of software is not determined by a theoretical "faultlessness" which always proves to be unattainable in reality, but by the usefulness of the software.
Good to hear so - I guess the stability of Ventura is sufficient for many users. Especially for those who use their Mac as "every other computer" and do not take too much advantage of macOS's specific features.
But on the other hand, those who take great advantage of the mighty features Apple offers and integrate those platform-specific features very efficiently and comprehensively into their daily workflows are quite vulnerable to OS bugs. I do absolutely count me in here - speaking for those users, I think the stability of Apple's OS Releases has not been sufficient for productive use before at least .3 versions in recent years.
For Ventura, I guess we'll see what happens in the next days - either 13.3 will lead in the direction of a stable release (as e.g. Monterey, which is running very productive on my Macs despite its minor bugs) or it will remain "not-so-stable-for-powerusers-but-well-enough-as-a-crowd-pleaser" (as e.g. Catalina, which never ran stable enough for productive use on my Mac).
i did freelance mac support for 18 years in nyc, am no novice. and i work my macs hard (especially my 'work' mini, with logic & final cut).
and i stand by my comment; am working & functioning well; my experience with ventura (on 2 M2 macs) is nothing short of excellent 👍
Is anyone experiencing issues with screensaver loading when using multiple displays in 13.3 RC? My screensaver only appears on my extended display, the main display is black. Was working fine w/ 13.2. This occurs with both my intel mini and silicon MBP.
We got the update right now.
We got the update right now.